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Sat, 29 May 2010

/SW/business/Redmine: Installing Redmine in a Hostgator Hosting Account

To their credit, Hostgator[1] actually provides some documentation[2] about getting Ruby applications working in their hosting account. I, however, found them to be inadequate, and debugging information availability was little to none, so for me the magic key was getting Redmine working first on my desktop, then migrating to the Hostgator hosting account.

One of the first things one notices when looking at the rather sparse Redmine installation manual[3] is the need for specific versions of a number of Ruby librairies. This is what I found:

My Debian Desktop Hostgator Account

rails (2.3.5) rails (2.3.8)

rack (1.0.1) rack (1.1.0)

rake (0.8.3) rake (0.8.7)

hoe (1.3.0) hoe (2.6.0)

In the Hostgator account, I got the above librairy versions using "gem list --local". I then installed in the account the correct versions as follows:

gem install rails -v=2.3.5
gem install hoe -v=1.3.0

Now transfer Redmine from desktop to Hostgator, placing it in /home/mentage/redmine-0.9.

In /home/mentage/public_html, create the following symlink: redmine -> /home/mentage/redmine-0.9/public/

Hostgator is using Apache to server up Ruby applications. Create a public/.htaccess[2] file with the following contents:

AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi 
     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi 
     Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI 
  
     RewriteEngine On 
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.* 
     RewriteRule .* - [L] 
  
     RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] 
     RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]     
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

After that, it worked for me by pointing a browser at the redmine directory.

[1] http://www.hostgator.com/
[2] http://forums.hostgator.com/ruby-rails-support-t13038p8.html
[3] http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/RedmineInstall

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Sat, 29 May 2010

My Debian Desktop	Hostgator Account
rails (2.3.5)	rails (2.3.8)
rack (1.0.1)	rack (1.1.0)
rake (0.8.3)	rake (0.8.7)
hoe (1.3.0)	hoe (2.6.0)